michaelkeenan

A lot of very smart people are quite hapless at actually getting big things done — particularly when getting things done requires working with people less smart than they are

When someone is good at getting things done, or good at organizing people, that skill is intelligence, broadly defined as the AGI researchers use it. "IQ" is a narrow definition of intelligence; AGI researchers sometimes use "efficient cross-domain optimization", which shows the difference. "A lot of very high-IQ people are quite hapless at actually getting big things done" is correct, but "a lot of people-who-are-very-fast-and-effective-at-a-great-many-different-things are quite hapless..." is obviously incorrect.

I don't understand why the obviously smart thing to do would be to kill all the humans. The smarter I get the less I want to kill all the humans! Why wouldn't these really smart machines not want to be helpful?

Other minds don't always have the same goals as humans. This is obvious in cases like sex, humor, or liking for music - we don't find it hard to imagine other minds that don't enjoy those things. But it is also true for drives such as compassion, or even self-preservation - even if the mind is very intelligent.

the bill goes on to mention a list of groceries that poor people will no longer be able to purchase

The author is confusing this bill with a different Wisconsin program, WIC. The bill's list is short: "The department shall prohibit the use of benefits to purchase crab, lobster, shrimp, or any other shellfish."

The author seems to believe the WIC approved food list is in this bill, but it isn't.

This is incorrect. The bill does not ban people from eating any foods. It bans people from buying shellfish with SNAP benefits. It also bans people from spending more than a third of their SNAP benefits on unapproved foods.

This headline is inaccurate. The bill prevents SNAP benefits from being used to buy shellfish, but people are still allowed to buy shellfish with non-SNAP money. The bill also prevents people from using more than a third of their SNAP benefits on food that's not on an approved list, but potatoes are on that list, so people can spend all their benefits on potatoes if they want. Ketchup is unapproved, so people can spend only a third of their SNAP benefits on ketchup.